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One Day You Will Feel Lonely
Learning from people with disability about loneliness and social isolation. In August 2023, Australia had its first-ever Loneliness Awareness Week, the result of a ... Read More
Couple Relationships
Author: Paul R. Amato Overview Many changes have occurred in Australia since the establishment of the Australian Institute of Families Studies in 1980. This ... Read More
The Impact of Family Formation Change on the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Well-Being of the Next Generation
Author: Paul R. Amato SummaryHow have recent changes in U.S. family structure affected the cognitive, social, and emotional well-being of the nation’s children? Paul ... Read More
Broken Families, Broken Lives: The Challenge of Pastoral Care and Inclusion in the Church
The Prevalence of Family Breakdown Church leaders have long been aware that family breakdown is on the rise, both within the churches and the ... Read More
Supporting Single People in the Family-Centric church
Coming out of the Covid 19 pandemic, churches across the country are experiencing change at many different levels. One of the issues which has ... Read More
Belong, Be Known and Be Loved: The Mandate for Church communities in an age of Loneliness
Loneliness has been described as an epidemic.1 In a recent Australian study,² nearly 25% of respondents reported that they rarely or never were able ... Read More
Submission to Productivity Commission: Philanthropy Enquiry
Publica’s submission to the Productivity Commission’s philanthropy inquiry. It highlights that the vast amount of charitable work contributed by church volunteers in the community ... Read More
Video: Relationship Breakdown Affects Us All
Emeritus Prof. Patrick Parkinson AM discusses how relationship breakdown affects us all.
The Loneliness of the Digitally Connected
Loneliness used to be identified as an issue particularly for the very elderly who have lost partners and friends through death; but now the ... Read More
We need to talk about Hungary
Over the past decade, Hungary’s marriage rates have risen by 92% taking them from number 28 in Europe in 2010, almost at the bottom ... Read More
Video: The Hope of Foster Care
Patrick Parkinson sat down with Mary Dickins of Fostering Hope to unpack her story and the complex realities of fostering children. Mary is the ... Read More
Fostering Hope: The Rising Need for Christian Foster Care
It is never God’s design for children not to be with their biological families, but when this isn’t safe, we need families for these ... Read More
